Her reasoning is that she put it in her schedule and she could have accepted other cleaning jobs. 

Our whole job is to broker deals between buyers and sellers.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

In addition, I don't feel like our job market is mature.

It is not your credit score but generally better credit will result in a better score- Time at your job- Education level- time at current residenceGood Luck & feel free to PM me if you have any questions. 

Of course it isn't going to work for everyone...then again, I also have many friends with degree's that cost them 6 digits that cannot get a job in their field!

Good luck either way and good job on the remodel. 

Or you might have to suck it up at that job and do real estate part time till it takes off

The challenge is that non-government jobs are often short-lived.

With the future being so uncertain I realized there was a need to do more than just rely on my job for financial security.